Can Ecotourism Save Peru's Rainforest?
12 October 2001 - 11:00pm
Ecotourism effort in Peru involves local community.
"Anthropologists and ecology groups alike tout the venture as an ideal way to integrate tribes into ecotourism and avoid the pitfall of them being perceived as a sideshow by tourists... And even here, so remote from the woes of the world...human politics and squabbling stemming from their ecotourism business has caused divisions in the native community."
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Environmental News Network, October 10, 2001
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